Sandra's fax on the Iditarod

You can't compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race over 1150 miles of the roughest ,most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of wind swept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow ,long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering sea coast, each team of 12 to 16 dogs and their musher cover over 1150 in 10 to 17 days.
It has been been called the " Last Great Race on Earth" and it has won world wide acclaim and interest. It is not just a dog sled race, it's a race in which unique men and women complete. Mushers enter from all walks of life. Fishermen, lawyers, doctors, miners, artists, natives, Canadians, Swiss, French and others; men and women each with their own story, each with their own reasons for going the distance.